Tina Weirather

Tina Weirather
— Alpine skier —
Disciplines Downhill, super-G,
giant slalom, combined
Club Ski Club Schaan
Born (1989-05-24) 24 May 1989
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
World Cup debut 22 October 2005 (age 16)
Website tina-weirather.com
Olympics
Teams 2 – (2006, 2014)
Medals 0
World Championships
Teams 4 – (2005, '07, '13, '15)
Medals 0
World Cup
Seasons 8th – (2007–08, 2010,
        2012–16)
Wins 6 – (1 DH, 4 SG, 1 GS)
Podiums 26 – (10 DH, 10 SG, 6 GS)
Overall titles 0 – (5th in 2014)
Discipline titles 0 – (2nd in DH, 2012)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Liechtenstein
Junior World Ski Championships
2007 Altenmarkt Downhill
2006 Mont Sainte-Anne Giant slalom
2009 Garmisch Giant slalom
2007 Altenmarkt Super-G
2007 Altenmarkt Giant slalom

Christina "Tina" Weirather (born 24 May 1989) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein.

Racing career

Weirather made her World Cup debut at age 16 in October 2005 and has five victories and 25 podiums through February 2016.

Weirather competed in two events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and finished 33rd in the super-G, but did not finish in the downhill. She had qualified to ski in four events at the 2010 Winter Olympics: downhill, super-G, giant slalom, and the combined. Just weeks before the Olympics on 23 January, while competing in a World Cup downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Weirather suffered another anterior cruciate ligament injury to her right knee and missed the Olympics,[1] as well as the following World Cup season of 2011.[2]

Following years of training alongside her compatriots on the Liechtenstein Alpine Ski team, Weirather now trains with the Swiss team.[3]

During the fourth training run for the downhill at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Weirather crashed at Rosa Khutor on 9 February and injured her lower right leg.[4] The bone contusion caused her to miss her starts in the Olympics and the remainder of the 2014 World Cup season. At the time, she was second in the World Cup overall, downhill and super-G standings and third in the giant slalom.[5]

Personal

Born in Vaduz, Weirather is the daughter of former World Cup ski racers Harti Weirather of Austria and Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein (and the niece of Andreas Wenzel).[1] Her mother Hanni won two overall World Cup titles (1978, 1980) and two Olympic gold medals (1980); uncle Andreas won the men's overall World Cup title in 1980. Her father Harti won the season title in downhill in 1981 and was world champion in 1982.

Weirather currently resides in Gamprin. She has both Liechtensteiner and Austrian citizenship.

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
 slalom  		Super-G Downhill Combined
2007 17 56 — 23 51 43 16
2008 18 109 — 39 — — —
2009 19
2010 20 58 — 41 25 38 32
2011 21
2012 22 9 — 30 7 2 33
2013 23 18 — 37 9 6 —
2014 24 5 — 10 3 4 17
2015 25 10 — 10 8 7 —
2016 26 4 43 5 2 8 —

Race podiums

Season Date Location Discipline Place
2012 2 Dec 2011 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
28 Jan 2012  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 3rd
4 Feb 2012 Germany Garmisch, Germany Downhill 3rd
5 Feb 2012 Super-G 3rd
26 Feb 2012 Bulgaria Bansko, Bulgaria Super-G 2nd
2013 30 Nov 2012 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 3rd
1 Mar 2013 Germany Garmisch, Germany Super-G 1st
2014 29 Nov 2013 United States Beaver Creek, USA Downhill 2nd
1 Dec 2013 Giant slalom 3rd
7 Dec 2013 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 2nd
8 Dec 2013 Super-G 2nd
14 Dec 2013  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 1st
22 Dec 2013 France Val-d'Isère, France Giant slalom 1st
24 Jan 2014 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy   Downhill 2nd
25 Jan 2014 Downhill 3rd
26 Jan 2014 Super-G 2nd
2015 5 Dec 2014 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 3rd
19 Jan 2015 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 3rd
21 Feb 2015 Slovenia Maribor, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd
7 Mar 2015 Germany Garmisch, Germany Downhill 1st
2016 24 Oct 2015 Austria Sölden, Austria   Giant slalom 3rd
28 Dec 2015 Austria Lienz, Austria   Giant slalom 2nd
24 Jan 2016 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Super-G 2nd
30 Jan 2016 Slovenia Maribor, Slovenia Giant slalom 3rd
21 Feb 2016 Italy La Thuile, Italy Super-G 1st
17 Mar 2016  Switzerland  St. Moritz, Switzerland Super-G 1st

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom  Giant
 slalom  		Super-G Downhill Combined
2005 15 — — 31 — —
2007 17 — DNF2 DNF — DNS2
2009 19 injured, did not compete
2011 21
2013 23 — 27 DNF 13 DNS2
2015 25 — 4 6 11 —

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom  Giant
 slalom  		Super-G Downhill Combined
2006 16 — — 33 DNF —
2010 20 injured: did not compete
2014 24 — — DNS DNS —

Other honours

Alpine Skiing Junior World championships

Swiss Alpine Skiing championships

German Alpine Skiing championships

Liechtenstein Alpine Skiing championships

References

  1. 1 2 Dunbar, Graham (23 December 2013). "Liechtenstein skier Tina Weirather follows in her family's rich Olympic tradition". Courier Islander. Campbell River, British Columbia. Associated Press. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Battaglia, Joe (1 February 2014). "Perseverance has Tina Weirather on cusp of own Olympic Alpine greatness". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather is on the fast track".
  4. ↑ Battaglia, Joe (11 February 2014). "Injury knocks medal contender Tina Weirather from Sochi downhill". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Season ends early for Tina Weirather". Ski Racing. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014.

External links

Olympic Games
Preceded by
Richard Wunder		 Flagbearer for Liechtenstein
Sochi 2014 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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